THREE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLESDated 1900; dated 1975; circa 1895 The first signed Ma Shaoxuan and dated genxi year (1900), possibly another hand, of rounded rectangular shape, one side painted with two cat-like animals, possibly badgers, and titled shuanghuan tu (picture of a happy pair), the other side with a thirty-two-character inscription; the second unsigned but dated yimao year (1975), probably Liu Shouben studio, of rounded rectangular shape, one side painted with the Ming dynasty doctor, Li Shizhen, the reverse with a lengthy inscription; the third signed Yan Yutian and circa 1895, of rounded rectangular shape painted to one side with three scholarly figures in a mountainous lake landscape, the other side with a pair of fighting crickets on mossy rockwork with flowers; stoppers. 2 3/8in (6cm), 2 1/8in (5.5cm) and 2 3/8in (6.1cm) high (3). 玻璃内畫鼻煙壺三隻 其一：1900年 《馬少宣》款 其二：1975年 無款 其三：約1895年 《閆氏》款 Provenance: The first: Denys and Eithne Cowell Collection Robert Kleiner, 30 March 2003 The second: Robert C. Eldred, 21 August 1997, lot 404 The third: Susan Hickmott Collection Robert C. Eldred, 22 August 2003, lot 169 Literature: The first: Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Denys and Eithne Cowell Collection , London, 2003, no. 27 來源： 其一： Denys and Eithne Cowell伉儷舊藏 Robert Kleiner古董行，2003年3月30日 其二： Robert C. Eldred拍賣行，1997年8月21日，拍品編號404 其三： Susan Hickmott舊藏 Robert C. Eldred拍賣行，2003年8月22日，拍品編號169 出版： 其一：Robert Kleiner，《Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Denys and Eithne Cowell Collection》，倫敦，2003年，圖錄編27 See a Ma Shaoxuan bottle of the same subject illustrated by Ma Zhengshan, Inside Painted Snuff Bottle Artist Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939) , Baltimore, 1997, p. 45, fig. 23. Another example sold at New York, 13 November 2017, lot 8016. For two similar Yan Yutian bottles dated to 1895, see Moss, Graham, and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside-Painted , Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 462-465, nos. 614-615.